ServiceMax, a company that builds software for the field-service industry, announced yesterday that it will go public via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in a deal valued at $1.4 billi
The number of people being told to isolate by the NHS Test and Trace app reached half a million last week, throwing some businesses - including car makers Nissan and Rolls-Royce - into chaos as dozens of their workers were forced to stay home.
A miniature version of Beijing's Forbidden City has been on display at a kindergarten in Panyu, Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, attracting many children.The model nearly recreates
In case you’ve not been paying attention, we’ll say it again: The global venture capital industry is on fire. The second quarter of 2021 was the largest single three-month period on record
TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capi
If you find yourself struggling to sleep over the next month, you could catch a glimpse of a stunning meteor shower if you head outside.
03:16 The European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary and Poland for breaking EU law by discriminating against LGBT+ citizens.Hungary recently implemented what's been
The rubble of the demolished section of the Champlain Towers South building is seen through flowers on a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the building's partial collapse, July 12, 2
05:44 Huguosi Street was one of Beijing's busiest commercial streets in the old days. It was also the former residence of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. Today, Huguos
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States is only sending marines to bolster security at its embassy in Haiti but the idea of sending American troops into the Caribbean country was "no
News broke this morning that Revolut, a U.K.-based consumer fintech player, raised a Series E round of funding worth $800 million at a valuation of $33 billion. Those figures are breathtaking not only
Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric
There is an art to engineering, and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, those two worlds collided when they created the widely successful open-source graphic
GM and its new EV business unit BrightDrop are launching a fleet charging service as the automaker aims to ramp up its bet on connected and electric commercial vehicles.The service, branded Ultium Cha
01:33 Afghan refugee Masomah Ali Zada hopes to be a beacon for women forced to quit their country or abandon their sporting dreams when she crosses the start line at the Tokyo Olympics.
A picture taken on March 5, 2021 at an international airport in Entebbe, Uganda shows boxes of COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded from a plane after their delivery as a part of the UN-led Covax ini
A digital illustration of the COVID-19. /Reuters Countries must refrain from using tracing the origins of COVID-19 to score cheap political points, a South African official has said."What is i